Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of two collections of short fiction. This Life She’s Chosen was published by Chronicle Books in 2005, and was named a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection for the year. Her second collection, Swimming With Strangers, was also published by Chronicle Books in 2008. With Jacqueline Kolosov, she is also editor of the anthology The Sincerest Form of Flattetery: Contemporary Writers on Forerunners in Fiction (Lewis-Clark Press, 2008).

Kirsten’s short fiction has appeared in One Story, The American Scholar, and Willow Springs, among other journals.She has been the recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She teaches creative writing at Purchase College (SUNY).

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